The general project objective was to explore ways for success in entrepreneurial activities to trigger students' initiative in an adapted way, bringing together students from various social categories with a focus on those who are discouraged in their study and lagging their peers. The project aimed to suggest training materials in line with the changes in the economic environment in recent years, stimulating the creation of both entrepreneurial culture and skills vital to starting one's own business under the supervision of academic entrepreneurs. All outputs had to be supervised by experts and piloted by further users. The specific objectives were: - Revealing trends and influencing factors on entrepreneurship by exploration of entrepreneurial culture and attitudes across the targeted students - Closing the gap in cultivating academic and students’ entrepreneurship by creation of methodologies for entrepreneurial education among the targeted students - Development of an Entrepreneurial Journey based on the Academic Entrepreneurship Roadmap, accompanied by a series of lectures, seminars, and workshops.
While for some student groups, such as students in technical specialties, there is some possibility of work in the same field where they study, for economic students, finding a temporary job related to their courses becomes mission impossible. Very often students in economy specialties coming from smaller towns and having weak financial family support work as executive staff in nonstop shops, clothing stores, restaurants, etc., till the moment of getting their diplomas. In this way, those young people tend to lose their motivation for self-improvement in the chosen career field and face serious barriers in the transition period from study to work. In this regard, the project is to address the following needs of targeted students: - Introducing near-real business environment matching skills during the study and practice of enterprises - Inspiring to follow the entire way from theory to business reality on the surface of academic entrepreneurship - Allowing practical action to be taken towards business needs of by means of science - Meeting peers with similar challenges and exchanging experience - Equipping with examples useful to solve situations after graduation.